Yahoo Trying To Sell Del.icio.us, Not To Shut It Down

Jeez, this is horrible blog spam. It doesn't matter that this is TechCrunch.<p>The number 1 article on HN right now links the original blogpost, and the comments cover the non-insight TC provides. The comments even copy/paste the original blog, if that's what you want. That seems to be the main service being provided by TC here.<p>Why are you upvoting this?<p>Flagged.<p>EDIT: I guess the Delicious blog is down. Maybe that justifies this?

The whole story could have been a deliberate leak by a Yahoo insider to drum up public support <i>against</i> shutting it down.

This would be more believable if not for the reports of the Delicious team being let go. While the site and IP do have value on their own, it's a large enough and complex enough site that there would be significant challenges with moving it to a new owner and migrating users off of Yahoo! authentication without the team there.

Yahoo PR single handedly gave the Pinboard guys a hockey stick growth.<p><a href="http://twitter.com/PinboardIN/status/15562023131676672" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/PinboardIN/status/15562023131676672</a>

<i>"Umm, what? If they would have said all of this yesterday and been more responsive, then there ould not have been so much speculation."</i><p>True.<p>On the other hand, the fact that the entire story was <i>ad rectum</i> speculation is conspicuously <i>not</i> Yahoo's fault.

Dup: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2017179" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2017179</a>

Definitely seems they had a change of heart in reaction to the bad press and decided to sell it instead of using it as a write-off

Best false alarm ever.

That little affair will surely have affected any valuation. It was just the shove I needed to move to pinboard. Let's start a conspiracy theory that it was a co-ordinated effort by some other bookmarking service to capture delicious users.

yeah, and if you want to sell a service, it's a great idea to fire the people running it...

switched over to pinboard already. I have little faith in yahoo now.